Sound Off

“Sound Off” is a forum to spur dialogue from residents of the many communities we serve on topics of interest in those communities. Fair game are comments that raise issues of note or amplify ongoing debates.

We will not publish comments that are potentially libelous, slanderous, vulgar or inappropriate. Publication of “Sound Off” comments is at the sole discretion of this newspaper.

“To Betty from Oxford. Please don’t feel alone ... I received the same type of tax bill for my husband who died in March of 1984. Maybe these people working overtime will get to earn more money. Do you think?”

-- Betty of Downingtown

“I have been reading Brooks in the Sound Off column for several months. I get the idea that she likes President Obama ... but she never says why. What do you like about Obama? What has he done in the last four years? Our economy has not improved, our unemployment is still very high, Iran is going strong toward developing a nuclear capability, North Korea is still firing missiles into the Pacific Ocean and we are losing our freedoms as we progress rapidly toward socialism. Tell me, what do you like? Do you like the deepest debt ever this nation has been punched into by his reckless spending? Please answer.”

-- Tex of West Chester

“This is an answer to Bob and Joe of Coatesville and all the many who delight in Catholic-bashing. Isn’t it interesting that Catholic-bashing is safe, unlike making the known fact about Islam and the Koran ... if you bash their practices like making women wear Perkas or shooting a young girl in the face because she encouraged young girls to be educated. Nobody has the courage to call out the Islamists about their beliefs, because they are afraid. Bash the Catholics because it is safe. Bash the followers of Islam ... and you will be in big trouble.”

-- Irene of Westtown

“Really Bob of Coatesville? ... Pass a law making it a serious crime to steal an assault rifle and using it against innocent people? That ought to stop the mentally ill from committing crimes of violence. Perhaps we should also consider prosecuting them posthumously since most of them commit suicide. If they aren’t afraid to die do you really think that they are afraid of prosecution?”

-- Libby of Exton

“Yes, Brooks, it’s Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, and right now the president’s on the television telling us he’s going to get rid of all these first responders if this sequester goes through. Nothing could be further from the truth. This man cannot tell you the truth, Brooks. He just won’t say the truth no matter what ... he never tells the truth. And pretty soon we will have someone else on there telling us that he’s going to fire the teachers. He can’t fire teachers, he doesn’t have that authority ... that’s local. Get rid of this guy.”

-- Lou of Sadsbury

“Yes Brooks, I give another big thanks to Lou of Sadsbury for his Sunday comments in the Daily Local. He knows what’s going on. You need to wake up before all of our freedoms are taken away from us and we have become a socialistic country. This president is out to destroy the United States of America. He goes on Air Force One to play golf with Tiger Woods and pays Italian stylists $183 an hour. What’s wrong with this picture?”

“Rachel of Thorndale

“Tell President Obama we are not the richest nation or country in the world anymore. We owe it all to China and other countries. We are living on borrowed money and it must stop.”

-- Mitch of Coatesville

“West Chester wants to spend $4,000 to put up signs to be read in the dark that basically says shhhhhhhh! Now what decibel level would be considered noise and who is going to measure it? And how could you prove which person made the nose? Isn’t there already laws against disturbing the peace?”

-- Dominic of West Chester

“I know Obama. In four years all he has done is campaign. He burns money on those trips he takes like he’s a billionaire. I know Obama. He says ‘I have a transparent administration.’ Do you believe that? He says he wants to help the middle class ... by bringing on a depression? He says he has cut $2.6 trillion from the budget. Has he? With a trillion in deficits? If that’s true, then he has added $3.6 trillion to our debt. Obama is nothing like you think he is. Where was he when Bengazi happened? I know ... he was in the war room, watching it in real time as those four men were being murdered. He wants this country to fail and he’s doing his best to make sure that happends.”

-- Louis

“This is to Charlie, the gorgeous 2-year-old cat that’s looking for a kind and gentle home. How dare you people think you can take him away just because you got two new cats that didn’t like him. He was there first, therefore, they should have went. You take him to the SPCA ... why would you take Charlie to the SPCA and not the two that didn’t like Charlie? That was Charlie’s home first. Charlie, you’re a gorgeous 2-year-old cat.”